With water levels in reservoirs being so low,
is it safe to be taking out so much water from
our reservoirs to fight all of the fires we're
dealing with? Water watchers say the levels in
Utah's reservoirs are low and getting lower
all the time.

In the two weeks since fall camp started for the University of Utah
football program, the overarching theme has been about the increased
speed and tempo. And while the attention has been on improving the
offense, the question is whether it will make the team more
competitive.

The driest prolonged period of drought along
the Colorado River in a century led the
federal
government to institute emergency steps to
curtail releases from Lake Powell, which will
be the lowest release since Lake Powell
filled
in the 1960s.

The Republican National Committee, responding to plans by two television networks to air programs about Hillary Rodham Clinton, approved a resolution Friday to block CNN and NBC from hosting GOP presidential primary debates.

Many residents of the Bridge Hollow and
Promontory communities in Summit County woke
up
in their own beds Friday. But about 125 homes
and cabins in the most-burned areas remain
off-
limits to residents as crews continue to
fight
the Rockport Fire.

This weekend, light rail will officially begin
taking passengers farther into the south end of
the Salt Lake Valley than ever before. The Utah
Transit Authority's Blue Line will welcome the
3.8-mile Draper TRAX extension.

UFO buffs and believers in alien encounters are celebrating the CIA's clearest acknowledgement yet of the existence of Area 51, the top-secret Cold War test site that has been the subject of elaborate conspiracy theories for decades.

New revelations from leaker Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency has overstepped its authority thousands of times since 2008 are stirring renewed calls on Capitol Hill for serious changes to NSA spy programs, undermining White House hopes that President Barack Obama had quieted the controversy with his assurances of oversight.

As students head back to school next week,
most of Utah's colleges and universities are
seeing a decline in enrollment. Officials
said lower enrollment numbers are due in
large part to the LDS Church's missionary age
change. Snow College administrators expected
to be the hardest hit by the age change but
the school has seen a surprising increase in
incoming students this fall.

In a ruling issued Friday, the Utah Supreme
Court upheld the conviction and sentence of a
man who pleaded guilty to killing his aunt. The
high court justices found the man knowingly and
voluntarily pleaded guilty.

Egypt's capital descended into chaos Friday as vigilantes at neighborhood checkpoints battled Muslim Brotherhood-led protesters denouncing the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi and a deadly crackdown. The fiercest street clashes Cairo has seen in more than two years of turmoil left at least 82 people dead, including 10 policemen.

Uintah County prosecutors filed new felony
charges Friday against a Utah fugitive who
walked out of a Salt Lake City hospital two
days after she crashed a pickup truck while
fleeing from police in Wyoming.

Injuries sustained from a trampoline wind
accident claimed the life of a 9-year-old
girl in Panguitch Wednesday. Oaklee Sidwell
was playing outside with her friends on a
trampoline Tuesday afternoon when a sudden
gust of wind lifted the trampoline and
carried it over for over 50 yards.

As a kid, I sat at the side of a lonely dirt road selling lemonade all day until I had a sunburn and had finished off two entire pitchers of lemonade and made not a dime. That day I learned the importance of location, location and sunscreen.

The father of a 16-year-old girl said she is taking things one day at a time after FBI agents killed a longtime family friend suspected of torturing and killing her mother and brother and escaping with her to the Idaho wilderness.

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